Coinciding with World Humanitarian Day, which is observed to honor humanitarian workers, United Nations staff and relief personnel working for international and NGOs, and in solidarity with the United Nations 2022 celebrations, which come this year under the theme "It Takes a Village to Support Communities in Crises", Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights issued a "Fact Sheet" to highlight the various violations that relief workers, working with the UN or in international relief organizations, were subjected to in recent years, such as murder, kidnapping, or injury.
The paper showed that aid workers were exposed to nearly 1,862 attacks from 2016 until the first half of 2022. 2018 recorded the highest percentage in terms of the number of attacks. The majority of the attacks were carried out in areas of armed conflict or in areas undergoing post-conflict transitions. These attacks have led to the killing, wounding, and kidnapping of humanitarian workers, and about 1,386 aid workers were killed until the end of 2021. The proportion of aid workers who were killed among the national staff is estimated at 98%, while the international staff is about 2%.
The majority of aid workers were killed in countries that were or are still experiencing armed conflicts between non-governmental armed groups, governments, and national armies. Afghanistan came at the forefront of countries, with 594 workers killed, followed by South Sudan, where 434 workers lost their lives, then Syria with more than 320 death, Sudan with 274, Somalia with 281, Congo with 184 and finally the DRC with 120 deaths.
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